virtualization

Mac: bare-metal virtualization on Apple Silicon with virtualbuddy


Categories: Mac, Virtualization

The Apple Virtualization Framework (AVF) provides the ability to run completely independent virtual machines on top of M family Apple Silicon. For example, you can run multiple versions of MacOS virtualized for validating an application or its dependencies against different environments.  Additionally, cloning an existing VM (with little cost thanks to APFS copy-on-write) allows you … Mac: bare-metal virtualization on Apple Silicon with virtualbuddy

Ubuntu: Standing up a Windows 2012 instance on Ubuntu using Sysprep


Categories: Automation, Linux

In the world of Linux containers where deployment takes on the order of seconds, even the best-case scenario for spinning up a new Windows host can seem like an eternity. Clearly, you don’t want to wait for the entire Windows install process each time you bring up a Windows guest OS.  Even automated, this would … Ubuntu: Standing up a Windows 2012 instance on Ubuntu using Sysprep